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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. I’m an atheist who was raised extremely Catholic, including Catholic schools, who went to college and finally got the confidence to publicly express the atheism I’d believed in since I was about nine or ten. I didn’t go to Mass for years. I did baptize my kids using my mom’s church, but that was more of a gift to my mom than anything.

But then I moved my kids to Catholic school after a disastrous public school experience. The school and community was incredibly welcoming to my kid and the family. The familiar academic and behavioral rigor was so welcome. I had this strong sense of homecoming. My kids embraced it, even though I’d raised them atheist.

I don’t go to Mass regularly, but I do go periodically now. And I really feel a sense of peace after. I have not gone to Confession, but I do take the Eucharist. I suspect that as I age, I will go more.

I don’t know what to do about the actual belief in God part. I remember questioning the existence of God as a very young child. I didn’t even have the words to understand it, but once I learned the term “atheist,” it resonated. I cannot make myself believe in God. But, I feel peace and connection to my community and family when I go to Mass, and for now that is enough.

All of this is to say that if you are feeling pulled to the Church, there might be a reason and it’s okay to embrace that. Go to different churches and attend Mass and see how it resonates. You don’t have to be all in immediately. [/quote]

If you don’t believe in God, and do not go to confession, you shouldn’t be going to communion.  Any priest will tell you that.  It’s good that you are going to mass and leaving your heart open (and for this I applaud you), but receiving communion as a current non-believer is a mortal sin.[/quote]

+1. I hope these are just bored trolls but you never know on here. If you're agnostic or atheist, why would you ever be in a church? Not adding up. No atheist or agnostic person I've ever met would ever willingly and randomly go to Mass and take communion. It would be literally the last thing they'd ever do on a Sunday morning. :roll: [/quote]

Sometimes you have to go for weddings or funerals. My husband's family is Catholic, and some of them still believe. You sit there thinking how weird it all is. I can't get over the funeral masses without eulogies for the person in the box up the front. One funeral I went to raised the tragedy of the split between the Catholic and Protestant churches as the reason Protestants couldn't take communion.

Despite my disbelief, I have read the Bible and know enough to answer all the questions on Jeopardy.[/quote]

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